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Priyanka Saggu, SUSE Madhav Jivrajani, VMware Kaslin Fields, Google Inflections & Reflections from Kubernetes SIG ContribEx on Community Growth & Sustainability 

Who Are We? Madhav Jivrajani @MadhavJivrajani Kaslin Fields @kaslinfields Priyanka Saggu @_psaggu 

Before We Start… 

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Inflections & Reflections from Kubernetes SIG ContribEx on Community Growth & Sustainability 

Inflections & Reflections from Kubernetes SIG ContribEx on Community Growth & Sustainability 

How Does ContribEx… ContribEx? 

How Does ContribEx… ContribEx? Subprojects! 

Subprojects Overview ● Community - Owns and manages overall community repo, including community group documentation and operations. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Subprojects Overview ● Community - Owns and manages overall community repo, including community group documentation and operations. ● Community Management - Manages operations and policy for upstream community group communication platforms. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Subprojects Overview ● Community - Owns and manages overall community repo, including community group documentation and operations. ● Community Management - Manages operations and policy for upstream community group communication platforms. ● Contributor Documentation - Writes and maintains documentation around contributing to Kubernetes, including the Contributor's Guide, Developer's Guide, and contributor website. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Subprojects Overview ● Community - Owns and manages overall community repo, including community group documentation and operations. ● Community Management - Manages operations and policy for upstream community group communication platforms. ● Contributor Documentation - Writes and maintains documentation around contributing to Kubernetes, including the Contributor's Guide, Developer's Guide, and contributor website. ● Devstats - Maintains and updates https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io, including taking requests for new charts. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Subprojects Overview ● Elections - New subproject! Oversees running elections in the community. Maintains documentation and software for elections. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Subprojects Overview ● Elections - New subproject! Oversees running elections in the community. Maintains documentation and software for elections. ● Events - Creates and runs contributor-focused events, such as the Contributor Summit. Event Teams are part of this subproject. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Subprojects Overview ● Elections - New subproject! Oversees running elections in the community. Maintains documentation and software for elections. ● Events - Creates and runs contributor-focused events, such as the Contributor Summit. Event Teams are part of this subproject. ● GitHub Management - Manages and controls Github permissions, repos, and groups, including Org Membership. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Subprojects Overview ● Elections - New subproject! Oversees running elections in the community. Maintains documentation and software for elections. ● Events - Creates and runs contributor-focused events, such as the Contributor Summit. Event Teams are part of this subproject. ● GitHub Management - Manages and controls Github permissions, repos, and groups, including Org Membership. ● Mentoring - Oversees and develops programs for helping contributors ascend the contributor ladder, including our group mentoring cohorts. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Subprojects Overview ● Elections - New subproject! Oversees running elections in the community. Maintains documentation and software for elections. ● Events - Creates and runs contributor-focused events, such as the Contributor Summit. Event Teams are part of this subproject. ● GitHub Management - Manages and controls Github permissions, repos, and groups, including Org Membership. ● Mentoring - Oversees and develops programs for helping contributors ascend the contributor ladder, including our group mentoring cohorts. ● Slack Infra - Creates and maintains tools and automation for Kubernetes Slack. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Subprojects Overview ● Elections - New subproject! Oversees running elections in the community. Maintains documentation and software for elections. ● Events - Creates and runs contributor-focused events, such as the Contributor Summit. Event Teams are part of this subproject. ● GitHub Management - Manages and controls Github permissions, repos, and groups, including Org Membership. ● Mentoring - Oversees and develops programs for helping contributors ascend the contributor ladder, including our group mentoring cohorts. ● Slack Infra - Creates and maintains tools and automation for Kubernetes Slack. ● Contributor Comms - Amplifying the success of and distributing information to Kubernetes contributors and beyond. https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects 

Code Quality, Stability and Security 

Code Quality, Stability and Security ● The GitHub Admins collaborate with the Security Response Committee (SRC) to handle security incidents that take place in our GitHub infrastructure. ● Post this, the Admins also provide direct feedback to teams at GitHub. ● ContribEx also assists with Legal Compliance Reviews for design docs (and more), working with K8s CoCC, CNCF, and GitHub. 

Non-code Contributions ● Recently revitalized initiative on non-code contributions. ● Folks working to make non-code contributions more actionable and developing generalized takeaways for CNCF projects as a whole. ● Join us! ○ Meetings: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. ● Reach out on #sig-contribex on the Kubernetes slack! 

Inflections & Reflections from Kubernetes SIG ContribEx on Community Growth & Sustainability 

Inflections & Reflections from Kubernetes SIG ContribEx on Community Growth & Sustainability 

Community Growth Graph from the 2020 Kubernetes Project Journey Report 

Community Snapshot - Nov 2023 83K Contributors 3.9M Contributions 6K Reviewers Stats from Kubernetes Devstats, Nov 5 2023 

Community Growth - Automation Embracing Growth — our evolving automation tools adapt to our expanding community's needs, ensuring seamless organizational operations, from membership management to collaboration and communication tools. 

Community Growth - Automation GitHub Org Reconciliation Loop Declared Members Observed Members List Members Invite, Promote, Remove Members Repeat for metadata, teams, et. al. Peribolos – enables the declaration of GitHub org settings, teams, and memberships in yaml format. GitHub is then updated to match the declared Org configuration. Embracing Growth — our evolving automation tools adapt to our expanding community's needs, ensuring seamless organizational operations, from membership management to collaboration and communication tools. 

Community Growth - Automation Declared Members Observed Members List Members Declare: What GH teams they’re part of, at what level of access, etc. Repeat for metadata, teams, et. al. GitHub Org Reconciliation Loop Embracing Growth — our evolving automation tools adapt to our expanding community's needs, ensuring seamless organizational operations, from membership management to collaboration and communication tools. 

Community Growth - Automation Embracing Growth — our evolving automation tools adapt to our expanding community's needs, ensuring seamless organizational operations, from membership management to collaboration and communication tools. 

Community Growth - Automation Embracing Growth — our evolving automation tools adapt to our expanding community's needs, ensuring seamless organizational operations, from membership management to collaboration and communication tools. 

Community Growth As the community grows, our methods of communication have had to adapt to the pressures of supporting such a large community. The number, type, and scale of each tool has grown accordingly. Sometimes, the purposes of existing communication channels get overloaded. ● New channel for new contributors. ● Explicit channel for org members. 

Community Sustainability To adapt to our growing community, we’ve had to make some changes as well! 

Community Sustainability To adapt to our growing community, we’ve had to make some changes as well! ● Inactivity period changed from 21 months to 12 months. 

Community Sustainability To adapt to our growing community, we’ve had to make some changes as well! ● Inactivity period changed from 21 months to 12 months. ● Criteria for what constitutes an org member is also now more well defined. 

Community Sustainability To adapt to our growing community, we’ve had to make some changes as well! ● Inactivity period changed from 21 months to 12 months. ● Criteria for what constitutes an org member is also now more well defined. ● Working on automating auditing of all our GitHub orgs ○ Org memberships come with elevated privileges! 

Community Sustainability We are also in the process of onboarding a new cohort of New Membership Coordinators (NMCs) – friendly faces that help you with your org membership requests. ● NMCs now has clearer documentation for reviewing and adding new community members as org members! (thank you Jason Braganza!) 

Community Sustainability Named roles are an effective way to drive maintainer sustainability in the project. 

Community Sustainability Named roles are an effective way to drive maintainer sustainability in the project. ● Formally recognises effort and skill. ● Formally gives contributors ownership. ● Gives contributors another avenue to seek help. ● Increases opportunity to pay it forward. 

Community Sustainability The comms team has implemented roles to organize work and provide opportunities for contributors to learn, grow, and be recognized. These roles are living things, with handbooks which are updated as the needs of the project change. Each role handbook includes information about shadowing that role - a shadow is in training to become a lead. 

Inflections & Reflections from Kubernetes SIG ContribEx on Community Growth & Sustainability 

Inflections & Reflections from Kubernetes SIG ContribEx on Community Growth & Sustainability 

Inflection Points & Reflections 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Open source projects always need help. 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Open source projects always need help. ● Outreach! New contributors (NCs) are our lifeblood. 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Open source projects always need help. ● Outreach! New contributors (NCs) are our lifeblood. ● Project maintainers are happy to help new folks in ways they best can and know how. 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Open source projects always need help. ● Outreach! New contributors (NCs) are our lifeblood. ● Project maintainers are happy to help new folks in ways they best can and know how. ● Some of these NCs make their first set of contributions (yay!) ○ At this point, they are “episodic contributors” (ECs) – folks who still haven’t made “long-term”, consistent contributions, but who still show up. 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Ideally, the goal should be to convert ECs to maintainers (you know… sustainability). ○ If this happens ~regularly, we are good. 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Ideally, the goal should be to convert ECs to maintainers (you know… sustainability). ○ If this happens ~regularly, we are good. ● But, we see that this isn’t happening as much as it should be! 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Ideally, the goal should be to convert ECs to maintainers (you know… sustainability). ○ If this happens ~regularly, we are good. ● But, we see that this isn’t happening as much as it should be! ○ As a result of which - ECs (potential maintainers) leave. 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Ideally, the goal should be to convert ECs to maintainers (you know… sustainability). ○ If this happens ~regularly, we are good. ● But, we see that this isn’t happening as much as it should be! ○ As a result of which - ECs (potential maintainers) leave. ● But, we still need new folks! Let’s do more outreach! 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Hmm, but maintainer bandwidth is still ~same. 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Hmm, but maintainer bandwidth is still ~same. ● Because Kubernetes is as huge as it is, and maintainer bandwidth is stretched thin, the number of NCs also start to drop off. 

Inflection Points & Reflections This is the inflection point that we are seeing our contributor community starting to reach. https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/18/new-and-episodic-pr-contributors?orgId=1&var-period=y&var-repogroup_name=Kubernetes&var-repo_name=kubernetes&from=now-3y&to=now-1M 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● Hmm, but maintainer bandwidth is still ~same. ● Because Kubernetes is as huge as it is, and maintainer bandwidth is stretched thin, the number of NCs also start to drop off. We need to spend time nurturing ECs more. Better for the project and for the NCs, which again is better for the project! 

Inflection Points & Reflections 1:1 mentoring does not scale. However, mentoring cohorts are a great way to target potential maintainers and give them the guidance needed to grow. 

Inflection Points & Reflections 1:1 mentoring does not scale. However, mentoring cohorts are a great way to target potential maintainers and give them the guidance needed to grow. “We have about 5 active participants, one of which has been able to join as an official kustomize maintainer/approver/…” ~ Natasha Sarkar, SIG CLI Kustomize Maintainer 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● As a project grows in size and complexity, the amount of undocumented context that comes with it also increases. 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● As a project grows in size and complexity, the amount of undocumented context that comes with it also increases. ● Undocumented context can prove to be a huge barrier for folks who hope to grow in the community. 

Inflection Points & Reflections ● As a project grows in size and complexity, the amount of undocumented context that comes with it also increases. ● Undocumented context can prove to be a huge barrier for folks who hope to grow in the community. ● As a result of which, it becomes crucial to try and help document this and create “common knowledge”. 

Inflection Points & Reflections Creating Common Knowledge ● Last Week In Kubernetes Development ● https://k8s.dev/course ● SIG Spotlights ● Contributor Summits across the globe 

Inflection Points & Reflections Creating Common Knowledge ● Last Week In Kubernetes Development ● https://k8s.dev/course ● SIG Spotlights ● Contributor Summits across the globe 

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